On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 01:12:24PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:52:22AM +0200, Henning Schild wrote: > > This series can be seen as a follow up of a series that appeared under > > the name "gpg-interface: Multiple signing tools" in april 2018 [1]. After > > that series was not merged i decided to get my patches ready. The > > original series aimed at being generic for any sort of signing tool, while > > this series just introduced the X509 variant of gpg. (gpgsm) > > I collected authors and reviewers of that first series and already put them > > on cc. > > This series is a fine replacement for that earlier work. It's flexible > enough to allow what we really wanted out of that series (gpgsm support, > or another drop-in tool that uses the same interface). It doesn't lay > any groundwork for further tools (like signify), but I think the > consensus on the list was to punt on that until somebody had more > concrete plans for adding such a tool. I actually think this moves in a nice direction for adding support for minisign/signify and other schemes. There's a way to look up what algorithm is in use in a particular context based on the first line and a general interface for deciding what format to write. Granted, it currently still is very specific to gpg-style tools, but I think this is an improvement in that regard. As an OpenPGP user, I have no interest in adding support for other tools, but I think this should make it easier if someone else wants to do that. -- brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
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